Birmingham — Week of 26 Oct 2026

Free two-day half-term technology camps for young people at Millennium Point.

An early-morning coffee catch-up for the Next Gen Healthcare Network at The Exchange on Centenary Square. The listing describes it only as hot topics in the healthcare sector.

An open morning at the NatWest Accelerator hub on St Philip's Place for founders who want to see the space and the programme. 9:30 to 11am.

The fifth workshop in the Birmingham NatWest Accelerator's Funding Accelerator, at 2 St Philip's Place, 09:30 to 13:00, on the financial information funders expect to see. It covers the metrics that signal a business is fundable, how to organise financial information so a funder can read it quickly, and how to build or refine a cashflow forecast that holds up. There are practical exercises rather than a lecture. The wider Funding Accelerator is a twelve-week programme of six expert-led workshops, and you can attend individual sessions without committing to the whole thing. Free. Why go: most founders can describe the business and then fall apart on the numbers, and this is the session that fixes that. Best for early-stage founders preparing for a raise or a lending conversation.

An EV and Tesla-focused trade day for independent motor dealers at Longbridge.

A paid evening networking event for the Birmingham developer community at Edgbaston Golf Club.

An evening networking session for Birmingham founders, freelancers, professionals and business owners, run by Web Pulse Business Network at the Cosy Club on Bennetts Hill. Two hours from 18:00. No speakers, talks or programme are published. Free entry tickets are available alongside paid tiers up to £11.55. General business networking with no published tech content, so it is listed on its venue and organiser pages rather than the Birmingham city page.

Birmingham's business analysis community takes over 81 Colmore Row for a Halloween-themed evening on AI and the BA profession, 18:00 to 21:00. The costume framing is light; the discussion is not. The questions on the table are how BAs are using AI in their roles today, how they should be using it, what it opens up and what it threatens, and what the profession looks like as AI gets embedded in organisations and ways of working. It is a social rather than a talks night, so the format is open discussion and networking with plenty of time to mingle. Free. Why go: an honest practitioner conversation about a profession under real pressure, among people doing the same job. Best for business analysts, product owners and delivery leads in the region.

Annual quiz night run jointly by the Birmingham Architectural Association and the Institution of Structural Engineers Midlands Young Members Group, at EH Smith's design centre in Digbeth. Teams of up to six, free to enter, bar open. A social fixture for the city's architecture and structural engineering community rather than a talks event.

with Garima Khakurel (Co-organiser, Women In Tech Birmingham) · Julia Gray (Co-organiser, Women In Tech Birmingham)

An evening of short demos from women in Birmingham's tech community showing things they have built outside work - apps coded at weekends, hardware experiments, games, data projects, creative tools, and projects still half-finished. Women In Tech Birmingham run it at Griffiths Waite's Centre City office, hosted by Garima Khakurel and Julia Gray. Presenters cover why they started the project, what went wrong and what they learned, with time for questions afterwards. Speaking slots are still open - email the organisers a couple of lines about your project. Free, pizza and drinks provided, 18:00 to 20:00. All experience levels welcome, and coming purely to watch is fine. Why go: the demo-night format gets past polished conference talks to what people actually build when nobody is grading it. Best for anyone in Birmingham tech who wants a low-stakes first speaking slot.

An ICAgile-certified session on business agility and innovation run by the Birmingham Agile Network. Delivered online.

A free open coworking day at Assay Studios in the Jewellery Quarter, with desks, coffee and informal introductions for freelancers and small teams.

Free online community training from Analytics Pioneers Birmingham on tracking single page applications. Starts 10am.

A one-day commercial Python beginners course run by PCWorkshops at the Regus offices on Victoria Square. Paid training, not a community event.

An online (CS)²AI symposium on smart building cybersecurity, carried by the Birmingham control-systems security group. Free, starts 5pm.

with Peet Denny (Founder, Tekka) · Dr Anandhi Vivek Dhukaram (Co-organiser, BrumAI)

BrumAI's October meetup, hosted by University College Birmingham at Moss House and sponsored by Birmingham consultancy Griffiths Waite. Peet Denny, who started BrumAI in 2017 and now runs regulated fintech Tekka, talks through the agent harness he built himself - Claude, Grok and GPT wired into Cursor and Linear - covering how it is put together, what went well and what he got wrong. Dr Anandhi Vivek Dhukaram, BrumAI co-organiser and an EU AI Act compliance strategist, runs an interactive session after the break. Arrival 17:30, talks from 18:00, close 19:25. Free, with food and drinks. Reception checks everyone in by name, so the RSVP needs your first and last name. The event is currently on a waitlist. Why go: Peet's talk is a first-hand account of running real product work through AI agents, not a demo of them. Best for engineers and founders already shipping with agents.

fizzPOP, Birmingham's makerspace, opens to the public: look round the workshop, see the laser cutters, 3D printers and electronics benches, and talk to members about getting started. Free, weekly.

A research-into-practice session at STEAMhouse run by the Deafblind UK Centre for Education, covering assistive technology and accessible design in service delivery.

A morning of networking and workshop content on business growth at x+why on Colmore Row, run by Lisa Bean. Paid entry.

A She Scales session for female founders on using their own business data as a competitive advantage. Part of the Birmingham NatWest Accelerator's standing programme at 2 St Philip's Place. Free.

A Black History Month founder mindset session at the Birmingham NatWest Accelerator, run as a mastermind-style discussion. Free.

A free entrepreneur networking evening at Manahatta on Temple Street for Birmingham founders and side-hustlers.

A weekly evening business strategy and networking session for small-business owners, run through the Birmingham Business Meetup group at Manahatta on Temple Street.

Digital in Brum restarts its informal socials at The Lost and Found on Bennetts Hill, 18:00 to 21:00. No talks, no agenda and no pitches. It is drinks and conversation for Birmingham's digital crowd: marketers, creatives, strategists, social specialists, freelancers and agency people. The organisers frame it around the things actually making the job harder right now, which is to say shifting algorithms, squeezed budgets, AI changing how the work gets done, and proving ROI. Come and go as you like, and bring a colleague. Free. Why go: the city's agency and in-house digital people are hard to meet in one place, and this is the standing fixture where they turn up. Best for anyone working in digital in Birmingham who wants the unofficial version of what is going on.

A general recruitment fair at Millennium Point with employers across sectors.

Global Woman Club's monthly Birmingham breakfast for women in business, at Aloft by Marriott.

A full-day conference at the Legacy Centre of Excellence in Aston for Black-owned businesses across the West Midlands, with sessions on growth, funding and using digital tools and AI in a small business. Paid ticket, large regional turnout.

A free Library of Birmingham session on creating a brand identity for a new business — positioning, naming and the visual basics, plus the free resources available through the library.